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Every novel is a debtor to Homer.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.
It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.
Our country has tremendous problems. We're a debtor nation.
There is but one true Giver in the universe; all else are debtors.
The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor.
Some troubles, like a protested note of a solvent debtor, bear interest.
Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times.
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
The Bible says forgive your debtors; the world says "sue them for their dough."
Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
Every debt is ultimately paid, if not by the debtor, then eventually by the creditor.
The world's largest debtor is a distinction of sorts, but not the one we like having.
Through a tree we were made debtors to God; so through a tree we have our debt canceled.
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison.
You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.
Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.
A short squeeze could happen with the U.S. dollar if lenders suddenly forced debtors to pay in cash.
Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster.
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.
In America, surveillance has always played an outsized role in the relationship between creditors and debtors.
When debtors once have borrowed all we have to lend, they are very apt to grow shy of their creditors' company.
We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.
If debtors can reasonably expect that the government will swoop in from time to time to bail them out, no one has any incentive to pay his debts.
Modern economies rely on debt, which encourages productivity and growth. But that system of credit requires consequences for debtors who default.
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.
The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.
The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.
Every sensible banker understands that Greece should not have received any more money: a bankrupt state that can never be expected to repay loans is not a good debtor.
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when times are good, that times were ever bad.
I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.
If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that you have no ground for it. Whatever you are, you have nothing to make you proud. The more you have, the more you are in debt to God; and you should not be proud of that which renders you a debtor.
That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.